This was spawned by JIRA issue: Use of SKOS Concepts in FIBO Jira Legacy server jira.edmcouncil.org JIRA serverId 6465cde0-d6c9-34a0-a506-4d4ac3461fe5 key FLT-52
There are two separate but related issues:
- How and when should skos:Concept be used in FIBO?
- How to represent concepts that are used to classify things, when you do not want to use owl:Class, and what criteria can be used to decide which approach to use.
This started when I thought one way to answer the first part of question 2 is to use skos:Concept. It was decided to not do that, instead, to use
- fibo-fnd-arr-cls:Classifier
- fibo-fnd-rel:isClassifiedBy
There are various ways to put things into buckets. The table below give examples and is drawn from a blog article summarizing this: Buckets, Buckets Everywhere, Who Knows What to Think?
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